Doctors: Seau's brain tests positive for CTE

Summary of 19 articles · Updated Jan 10, 2013

Seau's family donated his brain to the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C., to find out if he was one of many players whose time in the NFL led to CTE. Seau played football for 20 years. After Seau’s death, brain specialists with the Nationa… (more)l Institutes of Health studied his brain, and they have told his family that his brain tested positive for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disease caused by head trauma that can lead to depression, among other symptoms. According to a report from ABC News and ESPN, Seau's family members said researchers have concluded that Seau suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy , a degenerative disease typically caused by multiple hits to the head. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 players are suing the league for withholding information that concussions can lead to long-term brain injury. Don’t be mistaken. "We talked about the play later that night, and I said, 'Junior, my head is on fire!' He was like, 'Buddddyyyy, my head was KILLING me! But I wasn't going to let [trainer James Collins] know because he would make me sit out.' "

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